Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life - Couverture souple

Flaubert, Gustave

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140621792 ISBN 13 : 9780140621792

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140621792
• ISBN 13: 9780140621792
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352